best thing to cover wiring up. custom harness

[reelop19]

Black braided wire sheath.

 

[FrkyMnky]

Here is mine that I just got done with today. Pretty simple but requires a good bit of planning. Took me all day as I didn't have everything laid out so I was figuring it out as I was building. The rest is on the bike, but this gives you an idea of how its all setup.

 

[Mikey]

heres what i used. not quite as nice as shrink wrap or tape, but easily put on, i think it looks decent, and you can take it off if you need to get to something. This is the 3/8ths inch size, which only holds about 3 wires inside the wrap. i might have wanted to get the bigger size. i got 100 ft for $17 on ebay, so cheap too.

try this site the price seems right and you can buy as short as 5'
https://www.amazon.com/Industrial-Heat-shrink-Tubing/b?ie=UTF8&node
I am going to use it to when pulling my wires back through the handle bars from the light/turn signal switch
I'm sure the original covering for all the 6 wires will to brittle

 

[willis]

Grey, your amazon link doesn’t work for me. I’ve used the same stuff as Frky above and liked it. Just takes some planning in advanced. I don’t have a hot knife so I just used adhesive lined heat shrink on the ends to keep from fraying or unraveling. Looks nice and clean.

 

[Mikey]

Grey, your amazon link doesn’t work for me. I’ve used the same stuff as Frky above and liked it. Just takes some planning in advanced. I don’t have a hot knife so I just used adhesive lined heat shrink on the ends to keep from fraying or unraveling. Looks nice and clean.

It worked when I first posted WTF // try cut and past it works then

 

[Mikey]

Grey, your amazon link doesn’t work for me. I’ve used the same stuff as Frky above and liked it. Just takes some planning in advanced. I don’t have a hot knife so I just used adhesive lined heat shrink on the ends to keep from fraying or unraveling. Looks nice and clean.

I may have to head that direction it does look good and it might make it easier to snake through the handle bars into the headlight bucket

 

[Mikey]

Here is mine that I just got done with today. Pretty simple but requires a good bit of planning. Took me all day as I didn't have everything laid out so I was figuring it out as I was building. The rest is on the bike, but this gives you an idea of how its all setup.
It does look good ! I am going to get the braided and shrink wrap it makes the job look clean
Thanks!

 

[Mikey]

Just ordered it hard to tell exactly what size I needed but I bought 3 different sizes (wiring is still in the handle bars and I wanted to get the parts here) It will get used somewhere
Thanks again

 

[willis]

I used the factory sheathing inside the handlebars. The mesh will snag easier if it finds a rough point in the entry or exit holes. If you use it in your bars I suggest filing the openings nice and smooth.

 

[Mikey]

I used the factory sheathing inside the handlebars. The mesh will snag easier if it finds a rough point in the entry or exit holes. If you use it in your bars I suggest filing the openings nice and smooth.

I may have to use shrink wrap because the old sheathing is pretty brittle
Thanks

 

[LiveSlowDieWhenever]

I used this stuff https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07HKWZMSK?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_pd_title and wire loom tape at each end, and at any point where wires had to split off from the main harness. It’s cheap, easy to use, and I think it looks pretty clean. It says it’s got a high temp resistance but I wouldn’t put much stock in that, but it’s not hard to route wires in such a way that they’re not resting directly on any major heat sources

 

[willis]

Finally found my picture of my wiring under the side panel. You can see some of the mesh sheathing i used.

 

[Mikey]

Finally found my picture of my wiring under the side panel. You can see some of the mesh sheathing i used.

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Looks good!

 

[halfmile]

Braided sheathing is pretty forgiving stuff if you have to add or splice into the harness like I`ve had to do more than once. I`m starting on the no theme wiring this week and will use this again for sure. Wiring,

 

[Mikey]

Braided sheathing is pretty forgiving stuff if you have to add or splice into the harness like I`ve had to do more than once. I`m starting on the no theme wiring this week and will use this again for sure. Wiring,
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I'm just re doing from the headlight switch into the headlight bucket and I want to protect the wiring as I pull out and pull it back in
I bought 3 sizes of the braided and 3 sizes of shrink tubing something should work
I need 2 bikes 1 to work on and the other to ride cause I never want to get to deep into my only ride
Thanks to you all for the advice